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• Goudriaan, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Anna Schipper († 1998)
• Albert Meijering, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2015)
• Anna Susanna Maria van Beeren, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• "Geneviève" Marie de Valence de Minardière († 1998)
• Albertje Prummel, Wildervank (NL) († 1976)
• Antonius Gregorius (Toon) Van Oers, Heerle († 2000)
• Agnes Maria e Lemmens, Wehr (D) († 1983)
• Andreas Antonius Tobias BURKELS, Groningen († 1965)
• Albert Koster, De Wijk († 1990)

• Adriaan Elants (80), Rotterdam
• Alida Maria Zanardi (65), Hatert
• Anna Maria Klomp (37), Arnhem
• Aarnout Gabrielse (59), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Aaltje Arentshorst (71), Rotterdam
• Agetha de Bruijn (72), Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje (Anna) de Boer (54), Heemskerk
• Agnes Maria Ranke, Göttingen, Duitsland
• Aaltje Trof (94), Meeden
• Adriana Maria Johanna Kooijman (0), Kamerik

• 1912 » Willie Hall, English international footballer († 1967)
• 1913 » Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author († 2010)
• 1913 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1915 » Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist († 1991)
• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic († 1989)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Albert
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Marinus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
• February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
• February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
• June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
• August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.

The temperature on March 12, 1916 was between 1.8 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.